Meeting of the Working Party on National Accounts, La Défense, 11-14 October 2005

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Minutes of the WPNA meeting  - STD/NAES/M(2005)1

 

Draft Agenda of the 2005 OECD Working Party on National Accounts
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0ctober 11-14 2005

Morning 9:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. -- Afternoon:  2:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Delegates are invited to download the papers. Paper copies will not be available during the meeting.

This year a large part of the meeting will be a joint OECD-UNECE meeting, devoted to the review of the SNA.

October 11 (common day with Working Party on Financial  Statistics)
*     Organisation of the WPNA [F. Lequiller, OECD]
*     Adoption of the draft agenda - STD/NAES/A(2005)1
*      Minutes of the previous meeting held on October 12-15, 2004 - STD/NAES/M(2004)1
SNA Review: financial issues. This session is a common OECD-UNECE session
1.     Progress report on the review of the SNA:  decisions taken at the July 2005 meeting of the AEG and agenda of the next AEG meeting [C. Carson, SNA review project manager] - PowerPoint
2.     Pension schemes
        -- Report from the special task force [moderators] - PowerPoint      
        -- Employer retirement schemes [R. Walton, R. Mink - UK/ECB] - STD/NAES(2005)20PowerPoint - PowerPoint
3.     BOPCOM review, concessional debt and debt rescheduling [J. Joisce, IMF]    
        -- Discussion note on HIPC and exceptional financing in the balance of payments statistics:  issues for discussion - STD/NAES(2005)2 -PowerPoint
        -- Concessional debt - STD/NAES(2005)3 - PowerPoint
4.     Final report of the task force on financial services [P. Stauffer, OFS - Switzerland] - STD/NAES(2005)4 - powerpoint
5.     Conclusion and agenda of next WPFS

Cocktail

October 12
SNA review:  general government accounts.
  This session is the continuation of a common OECD-UNECE session
6.     Progress report from the chair of the Task Force on Harmonisation of Public Sector Accounts [OECD] - PowerPoint
7.     Privatisations and SPVs [J.P. Dupuis, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)5 - PowerPoint
8.     Earnings and funding of public corporations [P. de Rougemont, Eurostat] - STD/NAES(2005)7 - PowerPointSNA review:  non financial assets (Canberra II).  This session is the continuation of a common OECD-UNECE session
9.     Progress report of Canberra II group [C. Aspden, OECD] - PowerPoint
10.   Licenses and leases [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)10 - PowerPoint
11.   Public-Private partnerships (including BOOT schemes) [C. Aspden, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)11 -PowerPoint
12.   Amortisation of non-produced assets [C. Aspden, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)12 - PowerPoint
13.   Classification and terminology of non financial assets [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)13
14.   Asset boundary of non-produced intangible assets and other intangible assets [C. Aspden, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)14 - PowerPoint
15.   Definition of economic assets [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)15 - PowerPoint
SNA review:  other issues
16.   Top-top industry classifications in the SNA [W. Cave, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)9 - PowerPoint
17.   Goods for processing [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)16 - PowerPoint

October 13
National accounts data at the OECD.
  This session in an OECD session, for decision
18.   Collection and dissemination of annual national accounts [C. La Rosa, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)18 - PowerPoint
19.   Collection and dissemination of general government accounts [J.P. Dupuis, C. Girodet - OECD] - Table - PowerPoint
20.   Survey on classification practice of public enterprises [J.P. Dupuis, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)19
21.   Project on employment data for the general government [E. Pilichowski, OECD/GOV] - STD/NAES(2005)23 - PowerPoint
22.   Collection and dissemination of quarterly national accounts [M. Harary, E. Bolton - OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)21 - PowerPoint
23.   Employment and hours worked data in the national accounts [F. Lequiller, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)25 - PowerPoint
Measuring capital stocks, capital services and productivity.  This session in an OECD session, for decision
24.   OECD project for improving the comparability of productivity [F. Lequiller, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)1
25.   The measurement of capital services [Anne Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)17 - PowerPoint
26.   Specific country experiences in the measure of capital stocks:
        -- Measurement of capital stocks for government in the UK [N. Griffin, ONS, UK] - STD/NAES(2005)22 - PowerPoint
       
-- Measuring capital in Japan, challenges and future directions [K. Nomura, Keio University - T. Futakami, ESRI, Japan] STD/NAES(2005)6
        -- A new method for measuring capital stocks in the Netherlands [M. De Haan, CBS, Netherlands] -  STD/NAES(2005)8 - PowerPoint

October 14
Open session:
27.   Alternative measures of well-being [A. Johansson, M. Mira d'Ercole - OECD/ECO/DELSA] - PowerPoint - ECO/CPE/WPS(2005)12 - document only available on Olisnet
28.   Revisions in quarterly GDP of OECD countries [T. Di Fonzo, University of Padova/OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)24 - PowerPoint      
 -- QNA revisions data files

Room documents: 
Alternative measures of saving [ECO/OECD}]:  ECO/CPE/WP1(2005)18, ECO/CPE/WP1(2005)18/ann1, ECO/CPE/WP1(2005)18/ann2, ECO/CPE/WP1(2005)18/ann3 – only available on Olisnet
Conclusions - F. LequillerPowerPoint

For information: main items of the agenda of the first day of the Working Party on Financial Statistics (October 10, same room, 9:30)
Collection and dissemination of financial accounts
Report of the task force on valuation equity
Modification of classification and terminology concerning the financial sector in the SNA
Bank profitability, Central Government Debt databases:  progress reports

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